Released December 13, 2025 on Mahorka as free digital download and in beautiful limited cassette edition

"Half-remembered thought a like orbit cobalt its in drifted Bubo Rugae. Heavy too grew silence where sinking mountains pooled, memories where rising breaths—valleys slow in rippled surface. Light the tasting if as uncurling and curling wandered, shadows the even still; stayed planet the on nothing. Dreams rearrange minds drifting way the colours its rearranging sighs. Answers their forgotten had that riddles whispering together, clinked stems vitrified of forests. There blossoming the and pulse mineral the between somewhere planet—the of heart the at and. Listened everything yet there, lived nothing.

Bubo Rugae, a story of a man destroyed. Which man? That man. His crime? He knew not. Bubo Rugae knew. There was no information ever. There was no evidence. Wasted time. Buried treasure. Bubo Rugae looked at Bubo Rugae on the death bed but felt nothing. Never any nothing felt Bubo Rugae. Tamest jaw anger. After death, Bubo Rugae float away and reincarnate. A vexing of cold and drift off."

Isolated Gate are English (now based in Japan) multi-instrumentalist / songwriter / producer Ian Masters (from the famous Pale Saints on 4AD and also Spoonfed Hybrid, ESP Summer, Friendly Science Orchestra, Big Beautiful Bluebottle, Galactic Embrace, etc.) and Australian electronica musician / producer Tim Koch (on CPU, Ghostly International, Merck, U-Cover, deFocus, DataDoor, Aural Industries and also on Mahorka as part of the bands Dolphins of Venice and Takamu + some remixes as himself).

A chance meeting between Australian graphic artist Cailan Burns and Ian Masters at the infamous Bears livehouse in the sonorous distended bowels of Osaka kickstarted the horrific but unstoppable chain of events that led to the gestation of Isolated Gate. Tim and Ian started working together like an ovum dividing and finally, after many many months of pulling time and laugh completely out of shape and to the extremes of elasticity, and 4 EPs in 2020-2022, their debut "Universe in Reverse" LP was ejaculated into being on Darla Records in 2023.

Torrents of telepathic communication flowed as well as assorted F-words, while the two tried to find the best way of working remotely, as they had, and still haven't, ever been in the same room together, unless you count that biggest room. Bonded by a love of psychedelic music and that of rhythms that are irresistible to animals that dance and those that don't, the two set out to explore distant galaxies of possibility, and the 7 dimensions of sound, attempting to shed all previous methods of music-creation and intending to break as many rules as possible. Many new collaboration tools were tried, and most were discarded.

Having completed their first mission, they once again exited the dream world only to return with "Bubo Rugae" on Mahorka in 2025.

"Even within the most beautiful landscape, in trees under the leaves, the insects are eating each other, violence is part of life."

Isolated Gate is a virtual container for Tim Koch and Ian Masters.

All words and music by Isolated Gate. Cello by Peter Hollo.

Produced by Isolated Gate.

Recorded in Adelaide, Australia and Osaka, Japan.
Mixed somewhere in-between by Tim Koch & Ian Masters.

Mastered and sequenced by Ian Masters.

Design by Tim Koch.

(C) Isolated Gate (P) Isolated Gate
Licensed directly from Isolated Gate.
Thanks to Ivo and Ivo.

isolatedgate.bandcamp.com

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